Solutions
Demand and Supply Planning
Market-leading, all-in-one solution to control supply chain risks, capture missed opportunities and improve production responsiveness and efficiency.
- Demand and Supply Planning
Match the market with machine-speed decisioning
Insight infused planning allows you to meet demand, minimize excess inventory and maximize inventory turnover while cognitively adapting to changing market conditions.
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Features & Capabilities
Transform how you interact with inventory, demand and supply with one, cognitive planning solution
Natural conversations for smarter decisions
Inventory Ops Agent combines conversational AI with powerful data quality and plan analysis—scanning for broken bill of materials, sourcing issues, unmet demand, and fill-rate risks—so planners can trust their data, resolve issues faster, and focus on the SKUs and orders that matter most.
Capture more revenue that delivers on customer service and inventory turns
Boost customer service while reducing inventory with market leading demand planning capabilities to forecast and collaboratively plan for demand using AI, ML, market proven algorithms, and intelligent insights.
Boost productivity, outcomes and efficiency across supply planning.
Supply accurately against demand with optimal inventory at every level of the supply chain. Create shared production plans to optimize utilization rates that maximizes inventory turnover and exceeds customer service levels.
Not too much or too little, inventory that’s just right
Dynamically segmented and strategically staged inventory to balance service levels, demand variability, and supply constraints to determine the optimal inventory across every node in the network, reducing excess stock while ensuring product availability.
Collaborate on orders, forecasts, inventory, capacity, production and quality
Dynamically manage order schedules and share capacity, inventory and production details across your supply chain network. Streamline transactions through multi-tier, multi-enterprise order processing and bill-of-materials orchestration. Simplify collaboration, improve transparency, streamline transactions and inform planning.
Achieve precise machine learning (ML)-driven forecasts in an ever-changing world
Increase forecasting confidence with explainability, understand the underlying causal factors of demand, leverage the combined power of statistical methods, ML, and AI for precise and transparent demand sensing and forecasting.
Simulate the supply chain for the most resilient and profitable outcomes
With the power to mix and match factors to answer any what-if question, only Blue Yonder enables you to navigate global volatility by assessing your options in real time with omnipresent, boundaryless scenario analysis and planning insights.
Solve exceptions with holistic insights and actions
Best-in-class predictive insights and orchestrated collaboration enable you to move faster and leverage a holistic view of your operations. Intelligent planner workflows provide consolidated actions to recommend resolutions, resolve issues and achieve critical KPIs, at a global scale.
Measure, analyze and optimize carbon emissions for a lower carbon footprint
Directly measure, optimize and analyze carbon emissions and waste impacts from demand and supply planning processes. Understand the trade-offs between traditional KPI's and sustainability metrics for higher plan quality and superior decision-making.
Streamline and automate supply chain planning workflows
Only Blue Yonder streamlines and automates complex supply chain workflows across demand, supply and inventory. By guiding planners through consistent, best-practice processes you’ll see reduced errors and cycle times, increased reliability, and faster execution that scales.
Planning on the go, insights and actions for continuous collaboration
The Blue Yonder Orchestrator extends planning beyond the desktop. Planners can access briefs, insights, and agents on the go, and even create or respond to scenarios from their phones enabling faster decision-making, continuous collaboration, and true agility in a fast-moving supply chain.
Always be in the know with actionable insights at your fingertips
Interactive dashboards put critical information at a planner’s fingertips. From KPIs and demand-at-risk to sustainability metrics, every view is fully customizable with flexible time buckets and drill-down capabilities. Now planners can see the information most relevant to them in a clear, actionable format.
Say goodbye to emails and spreadsheet collaboration
Collaboration moves out of emails and spreadsheets into a shared workspace. Everyone works together directly in-platform to evaluate disruptions and trade-offs. Guided workflows and scenario simulations accelerate alignment, making cross-functional decisions faster and more effective.
Extend planning and analysis to drive higher quality plans
Anticipate and respond like never before with seamless data and workflows between planning to transportation and warehouse operation systems, sustainability, and beyond your four walls to include the multi-tier, multi-enterprise supply chain network.
Break enterprise boundaries to increase agility at scale.
Tackle all of your supply chain challenges with the only scalable, end-to-end platform that leverages a common data cloud, integrated AI insights and ML forecasting. Coordinate efforts across your complex supply chain ecosystem for improved return on capital, lower cost to serve and faster time to market.
Benefits
Achieve consistency and resiliency, empower agility and adaptability with Blue Yonder Demand and Supply Planning
Enhanced forecast accuracy with advanced AI and ML
With demand planning, businesses can achieve a 12% improvement in forecast accuracy. By integrating patented algorithms and advanced ML models, this solution ensures that demand forecasting is not only highly accurate, but also reliable. The AI-driven feature accelerates decision-making and optimizes forecast.
Increased efficiency, productivity and cost savings
Demand planning leads to a 75% improvement in planner efficiency and a 50% reduction in costs and expenses. This is achieved through the automation of routine tasks and the real-time simulation of demand drivers, which empower planners to respond swiftly and strategically. Additionally, the solution offers significant savings of up to 30% such as through a one-time inventory reduction.
Collaborative and unified planning and strategic decision-making
Enable real-time, collaborative consensus planning and communication across the business by integrating inputs from sales, marketing, and operations into a unified, flexible process. This multidimensional analysis improves visibility and enables faster, more informed decision-making, leading to a 2% increase in revenue and a 1.5% rise in gross margin.
Elevate your supply chain strategy from planning to manufacturing
Stage the right inventory at the right time so you can minimize stockouts and get a higher return on invested capital. By leveraging advanced ML, Blue Yonder’s inventory optimization capabilities strategically groups customers based on updated data, allowing you to tailor operations to specific needs. Ensuring efficient inventory allocation and enhanced service levels, balancing cost and value seamlessly.
Reduce excess inventory and obsolescence costs through network resilience
Inventory optimization eliminates excess inventory and reduces obsolescence costs while maintaining high customer service levels. By leveraging advanced ML cognitive microservices, Blue Yonder’s solution takes a strategic approach to ensure efficient use of resources and minimizes waste, leading to significant cost savings.
Enhance flexibility and decision-making for higher profitability
Proactively adapt to markets to ensure robust supply while reducing escalations and cost to maximize delivery performance. Blue Yonder leverages advanced micro-segmentation and cross-industry adaptability to improve decision-making and inventory management accuracy, ensuring a flexible and responsive supply chain strategy.
Fulfill your potential with Blue Yonder
Demand planner
Gain accurate forecasts to ensure the right products are available at the right time, minimizing stockouts and overstock situations.
Increased profitability
Achieve higher availability and lower costs through micro-segmented demand and AI powered forecasting.
Optimized inventory and minimized waste
Align inventory deployment to market to reduce overstocking and stockouts and reduce the waste in your supply chain.
Increased revenue
Top line growth through a more accurate view of the market and higher customer satisfaction.
Achieve higher availability and lower costs through micro-segmented demand and AI powered forecasting.
Optimized inventory and minimized waste
Align inventory deployment to market to reduce overstocking and stockouts and reduce the waste in your supply chain.
Increased revenue
Top line growth through a more accurate view of the market and higher customer satisfaction.
Success stories in Demand and Supply Planning
Learn how Micron tackled extreme cyclical demand volatility, long lead times, materials shortages and multinational operations, and was able to balance inventory levels, customer service and costs with Blue Yonder.
Lenovo operates 30 manufacturing facilities, serves customers in 180 markets, and makes an astounding three devices every second. Not only is Lenovo’s product line broad and complex, but its production model is equally complex, based on both build-to-plan and configure-to-order. Jack Fiedler, VP of Digital Transformation for the Global Supply Chain at Lenovo, discusses how Blue Yonder solutions help ensure the right products are in the right place, leading to faster turns, higher service levels and reduced costs.
Positec, a manufacturer and marketer of home improvement tools, worked with Blue Yonder to increase forecast accuracy by about 40%, decrease safety stock 150 days down to 35 as well as improve on-time delivery. With Blue Yonder, Positec's demand planners have gone from a role of gathering data to analyzing data and giving recommendations.
After experiencing a rapid growth in e-commerce, requiring delivery to customer homes and retail locations, City Plumbing needed to find a way to optimize their legacy warehouse systems. Blue Yonder's Warehouse Management System enabled them to enhance their visibility and responsiveness, resulting in a 20% reduction in inbound receiving time, improved process accuracy and efficiency, and higher levels of service and profitability.
Adored by brands, recognized by analysts
Blue Yonder Named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Supply Chain Planning Solutions
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